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Be My Knife

By David Grossman

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| Paperback | 9780747561484

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When the awkward, neurotic and childlike Yair, a seller of rare books, sees a beautiful woman across the room at a class reunion he feels compelled to write to her. So begins a love affair of words between two married, middle-aged adults, dissatisfied with their lives, yearning for the connection thContinue

When the awkward, neurotic and childlike Yair, a seller of rare books, sees a beautiful woman across the room at a class reunion he feels compelled to write to her. So begins a love affair of words between two married, middle-aged adults, dissatisfied with their lives, yearning for the connection that has always eluded them. 'Be a knife for me,' Yair writes to Miriam, 'and I, I swear, will be a knife for you.' As they peel back their inhibitions, their correspondence unfolds into an exchange of their most naked confessions in a novel that is as passionate as it is spellbinding.

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  • Masturbating with words

    'A book can make a hole in the wall. It can help us to read reality,' the Israeli novelist David Grossman once said. Well, yes. But sometimes even bigger holes can be made with a more straightforwardly worldly device - a sledgehammer, for example. Gr ... (read full critics)

    spectator published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

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